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From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack)
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Subject: Re: nostalgia (Was: Beta release of gawk 5.3.1)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:53:15 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <vaposi$1artv$1@news.xmission.com>,
Kenny McCormack <gazelle@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
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>Note, BTW, that it looks like this function only gets compiled in if the
>preprocessor symbol NOSTALGIA is defined, which you'd think would be
>off-by-default, but apparently that is not the case.

Actually, upon further checking (and already having spent way too much time
on this), it seems that the function (and attendant functionality) is
always there; the NOSTALGIA symbol only controls whether or not it is
listed as an option (when gawk is run with no args).

So, if you somehow manage to compile with the symbol defined, then it will
(contrary to what is implied in the OP of this thread), be (somewhat)
documented.

-- 
I love the poorly educated.